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why choose misery when you can choose happiness?
Back home, continue to meditate -- at least one meditation each day. And this is going to be your moment-to-moment meditation: remember to feel blessed. If you can do that much, when you come back next time much will be possible.
[A sannyasin said that she had been in Nepal for two months. When she left Poona, after the Enlightenment day celebration, she felt very open and good; then later became very afraid and paranoid of people]
It can happen sometimes that if you suddenly feel open, you can feel fear coming. Openness is vulnerability. When you are open, you feel at the same time that something wrong can enter you. That is not just a feeling; it is a possibility.
That's why people are closed. If you open the door for the friend to come in, the enemy can also come in. Clever people have closed their doors. To avoid the enemy, they don't even open the door for the friend. But then their whole life becomes dead.
... It is just the idea; just the idea that something wrong can enter you. There is nothing that could happen, because basically we have nothing to lose -- and that which we have cannot be lost. That which can be lost is not worth keeping. When this understanding becomes tacit, one remains open.
Let winds come, let the sun come -- everything is welcome. Once you become attuned to living with an open heart, you will never close. But a little time has to be given to it. You went immediately after the enlightenment day so you must have been feeling very open. It can happen on those days. That's why I insist on people being here then. You can ride on the wave and something can open. But then you have to maintain that opening, otherwise it will close again.
Only fear has to be feared, nothing else. And people are not afraid of fear; they are afraid of a thousand and one things. But fear is the only enemy, because with fear you start being crippled. You stop moving, expanding, contacting, relating, because of the fear. Who knows? -- something may go wrong.
You don't love people because that will be a commitment, an involvement, so you keep aloof, remain away
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